With “Married to the Mob,” Demme enacts his own theme about second chances by bringing a less threatening attitude to bear on the same basic story. The results are very good – far better and funnier than most of what is being made these days. But having worked through similar material,...
for a day in which he will make preparations for his new film, which is, we are told, his version of Franz Kafka’s Amerika. Kafka and Fellini would seem to have little in common, and indeed the maestro’s first
Dialogue has no punch or flavor, usually just serving to advance plot and fill air before a big action moment. Trevorrow’s direction of the first film in this new series no doubt paid great reverence to maestro Steven Spielberg. J.A. Bayona, taking over the helm for the sequel, does ...
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“TÁR” follows a multi-hyphenate star maestro as her true colors start to unravel through an entrancing, mind-bending structure. The film isn’t so much about what we do with problematic artists with undeniable talent and output; but more an exploration of one such person’s headspace ...
Yet there’s plenty of snickering and full-on laughter throughout “The Butler,” whichLee Danielsdirects in about five styles at once, like a Bollywood maestro. No, it’s not a musical, but it makes plenty of visual music. Everybody decries comparing mainstream “black” directors, but ...
” goes one representative exchange, and, later, one character rages “The difference between never and once is the difference between right and wrong”—that recall/honor the late maestro while conveying their own uncomfortable truths. And while Hardy is alone on screen, he’s not alone in ...
—and icky—feminist observation from tyros Jen andSylvia Soska. Little thematic fillips of this sort help make the stretch from “S” to “W” maybe the strongest of the whole feature, and the streak is broken with a blindingly obvious “X” that’s surprisingly by “Inside” maestro...
And now, for fun, here are some excerpts from the reviews. Haneke should be absolutely thrilled with every one of these — perhaps especially the negative ones: The picture, remade by the maestro Haneke himself, is every bit as gripping, suspenseful and upsetting as the original. And it’s...
and the intrigue, get raised, because both performers have wildly enthusiastic (not to say rabid) fan bases that seem willing to follow their idols anywhere. Which is not to say that movies like “Maps To The Stars” (Pattinson working for the second time with maestro of unsettling contentDa...